Yarn Bombing Movement Spreads to Share Scarves, Hats in Public Places

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“Chase the Chill” has become a social media movement that inspires people to leave warm scarves, often with a note, in public places for anyone to take.


“I’m not lost,” it says on many of the homemade tags. “Take me if you’re cold.”

Scarves draped on trees, posts, signs, and other public locations first appeared in downtown Easton, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 2010, according to the original Chase the Chill group on Facebook.

Susan Huxley, a crochet teacher, writer and blogger, who started the Easton group with some friends, says she saw homeless people walking to the shelter down the street, often without the proper clothing to keep them warm.

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[Exhibit A]

1. This is so awesome.

Thanks for posting it.

[Greybnk48]

2. K&R So DU knitters see.

I'm going to pursue something like this where I live.

[shanti]

15. DU knitter here!

Unfortunately, it's not cold enough here in Sacramento for warm hats/scarves. We're having an early spring.

[brer cat]

3. Huge K&R for this group! nt

[GreatGazoo]

4. 'random acts of kindness'

[a kennedy]

5. The scarfs are beautiful as the act of kindness knitting them.....

makes me quite proud.

[AzDar]

6. Love it.

[mountain grammy]

7. We do it at our post office ever December

this is great. It's sad how many people can't afford a pair of gloves or a warm hat.

[Stargazer09]

8. I need to dig into my yarn stash

It shouldn't take long to make a scarf or a hat for someone.

[pipi_k]

9. As a knitter/crocheter...

this brings tears to my eyes.


Someone finally realized that yarn bombing like this:





while cute, is foolish as long as there are people out there who can't afford a hat or scarf or mittens to keep them warm in winter.



I don't knit and crochet hats or mittens for adults, but I do make hats and sweaters and other little items for NICU babies. Quick little projects I can do while watching TV or riding in the car. My hands have to be busy all the time.

[jwirr]

10. Great idea. But if you cannot knit or crochet like me it is still possible to buy a scarf or hat or

mittens to hang on a tree.

[Hatchling]

11. That would be very nice.

I haven't been able to learn to knit, but crocheting was fairly simple for me to learn from a simple how to crochet booklet. It's kind of satisfying.

[jwirr]

13. When I was younger my mother tried to teach me to knit - she finally told me that if the world

ever needed a long string I could make it. Then just recently my home health nurse tried again. She agrees with my mother. I have problems with visualizing things like that and finally I just quit. So when there are projects like this one I look for a nice sample in the store and add it to the mix.

[Retrograde]

16. My mother learned how to knit in her 80s

She tried it for a while, then decided she preferred crochet, which she claims is easier on her hands. I find crochet harder, but to each her own.

[SoapBox]

12. Cool!

[Hekate]

14. Awww, that is so sweet. I love the whole yarn-bomb concept, and this just takes it to...

...a whole new level.

[ladyVet]

17. What a nice idea.

I've got some rusty knitting and crocheting skills, and a bag of yarn from my late aunt that I've been wondering what to do with. It's a big black garbage bag of stuff she must have kept from the 70s to 90s, when she was knitting.

I still have the little sweater set she made for my first born, who ended up being a boy so never got to wear it. Maybe I'll have a granddaughter someday.